Roland Edmund Murphy (July 19, 1917 – July 20, 2002) was an American Catholic priest of the Carmelite order, a biblical scholar and a specialist in the study of the Old Testament.
He was the George Washington Ivey Professor of Biblical Studies at Duke University.
Murphy also held a graduate degree from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.
[1] A "noted Scripture scholar",[2] he taught at the Catholic University of America for over twenty-five years; he then took an appointment at Duke University's Divinity School, the "first Catholic faculty member at Methodist Duke Divinity School",[3] where he remained until his death.
[4][5] He was a collaborator on the New American Bible (NAB), a Catholic Bible translation first published in 1970, and a co-editor of both the Jerome Biblical Commentary and the (New) Jerome Biblical Commentary.